Re: tap tests driving the database via psql

On 7/27/19 6:37 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2019-07-27 17:48:39 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 7/27/19 3:15 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> I'm not volunteering to do 4), my perl skills aren't great (if the test
>>> infra were python, otoh... I have the skeleton of a pure perl driver
>>> that I used for testing somewhere). But I am leaning towards that being
>>> the most reasonable choice.
>> +1 for #4.
>>
>>
>> I'll be happy to participate in any effort.
>>
>>
>> About 22 years ago I wrote a pure perl implementation of a wire protocol
>> of roughly similar complexity (RFC1459). I got it basically working in
>> just a few days, so this sort of thing is very doable. Let's see your
>> skeleton and maybe it's a good starting point.
> The skeleton's in python though, not sure how helpful that is?

Maybe I don't write much python but I can read it without too much
difficulty :-)

But you did say your skeleton was pure perl ... slip of the fingers?

>
> /me once more regrets that perl, not python, has been chosen as the
> scripting language of choice for postgres...
>

That ship has sailed long ago.

cheers

andrew

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